Re: Free software book?

Ciaran O'Riordan <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.fsf.uk
Message-ID <[email protected]>
"Jon Grant" <[email protected]> writes:
> We wouldn't have had had a browser if it wasn't for that book

Frank Hecker says Eric Hahn was the person most responable for Netscape
freeing their browser:
http://www.openoffice.org/editorial/ec1May.html

Of the CatB paper, he says:

 "In my opinion the paper's importance in the context of Netscape's decision
  was mainly that it provided some independent validation of ideas that were
  already being actively discussed and promoted within Netscape."

A decision maker from Netscape (possibly Hecker), also made similar comments
in the Revolution OS documentary, along the lines that CatB was a factor,
but by no means the main factor.

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